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...code name is given each caller, and an elaborate payoff system involving a clandestine rendezvous is used to reward the anonymous informant. The cloak-and-dagger atmosphere is apparently part of the program's lure. Said the program head: "People are interested in that type of thing-code names, secret drops. There's a little...
...pansies serving as tee markers, club covers knitted in the shape of Teddy bears. As for golf, President Whitworth was the biggest swinger of all. Three-putting only three greens in 72 holes, she won her second L.P.G.A. championship by a commanding four-stroke margin. The $7,950 payoff boosted her 1971 winnings to $26,825, tops on the tour...
...Payoff Strategy. At HEW, Mardian earned a reputation as the conservative heavy in a cast of liberal attorneys intent on enforcing the spirit as well as the letter of federal civil rights laws. One former HEW lawyer says that Mardian "consistently tried to scuttle school desegregation guidelines." Defending his go-slow position, Mardian candidly explained, "Look, you might as well recognize that you're in politics." He told his colleagues: "There are two kinds of people in the world-winners and losers. I knew a loser once and he was a queer." ("That's a joke," he added...
Mardian helped draft the Nixon Administration's famous 1969 memo that effectively relaxed desegregation dead lines in Southern states. He is convinced that his Southern strategy avoided violence and white flight to the suburbs. The payoff, he argues, is that 92% of the region's black pupils are in desegregated school systems, compared with 6% two years before...
...himself to such modes in following Fogg's itinerary. In place of Fogg's famed manservant, Passepartout, Perelman prefers female traveling companionship. Though he has had "five applications for the post from various birds," he says, "I have in fact chosen my secretary." No bet, though. The payoff, like Author Verne's, will be a book...